CPUs improving ?
 

I've noticed that in 2013 (and esp post Feb 1), my CPU success rate (and position in waitlist queue) has drastically improved.

Anyone else experiencing the same (or the opposite) ?

ps : i'm EWR based

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Not on my end ex-SFO. Opposite experience.

I'm 100% this year, but then again I'm based in HNL, not exactly an elite hub.

Limited experience this year with UA domestic, but not seeing any improvement at all.

DEN-SJC, good < 50%

DEN-SFO, bad 0%

I was thinking the same thing just now as I got an email saying that the afternoon ORD-PVD flight I booked at 3:00 this morning had been upgraded. 1K on a Q fare. They were trying to sell the upgrade to me at check in for $109 but at T-3 hours they cleared me and someone else off the wait list.

I've had very good success recently with upgrades clearing recently it seems. Seems like more flights are clearing at the 1K window, and I've even had some success with battlefield upgrades, including SDC/standby for earlier flights, which were almost unheard of at the old United.

About the same for me out of SEA...~50% (I was 95% before 3/3).

Limited experience on domestic, but I'm 50%, or 1 out of 2 both LAX/SFO

I've been lucky - I'm a Silver and 4/5 on CPU's this year so far, but mostly due to traveling off days, touristy destinations and fortunate equipment swaps.

Ditto

The level of premier really doesn't seem to matter much anymore since the upgrades are sorted by fare.

As a 1K, my upgrade percentage on low fares (e.g. G) is zero. My upgrade percentage on expensive fares (V or better) is about 80%.

Not true at all. A 1K on an S fare will be ahead of all lower status on M or lower fares. There are just a lot of 1K's now.

I have been having absolutely atrocious luck with CPUs as a 1K out of EWR. I think I've ended #1 on the list 5 times, including one time going from #1 with 5 available at T-12 to #1 with 0 available at boarding. I actually had a better percentage last year when I was still a Platinum. Routing through LGA seems to help a little, but not much.

I fly out of EWR and haven't noticed any improvement. I've just kind of resigned to using regional upgrades or miles for those flights I really need to be in a better seat.

Yeah 1K's on G are supposed to be ahead of Plats on anything less than an instant-upgrade fare. My experience is pretty much the same though - 100% on Q and higher. I save the instruments for cheapo transcon or Hawaii fares.